THE OFFICIAL RUTGERS-MARYLAND PREDICTION THREAD
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Wow, that's probably more than the point spread will be. Bad matchup in your opinion with the size advantage they will have at the basket?
I was hoping they would win @OSU and come in overconfident. But instead worst case scenario, losing a heartbreaker. Maryland will have energy on Sunday.
I was hoping they would win @OSU and come in overconfident. But instead worst case scenario, losing a heartbreaker. Maryland will have energy on Sunday.
Maryland coming off deflating loss with 12:00 start time. Rutgers more motivated. Rutgers wins 74-70
I think its a bad matchup and they can defend, going to need 50 combined from ace/dylan to win....for RU to win this game needs to be in the uppers 70s and 80s range
they certainly are not unbeatable...they have struggled even with some mediocre teams and blew a big lead at Ohio State. I think they are very balanced and have guys at every position
RU 76
MD 72
Motivating locker room speech: now looking like we are getting passed the point where we risked getting shut out of the B1G tournament; and with lots of ranked opponents in rest of schedule; so we have an opportunity to keep winning to work our way back into NCAA tourny conversation; and that is certainly possible. But we must start today.
MD 72
Motivating locker room speech: now looking like we are getting passed the point where we risked getting shut out of the B1G tournament; and with lots of ranked opponents in rest of schedule; so we have an opportunity to keep winning to work our way back into NCAA tourny conversation; and that is certainly possible. But we must start today.
All of MD’s 6 losses were in close games, 5 of them on the road and 1 at home (against a ranked Marquette team).
In all of their losses they were beaten in the second half (or in the case of NW, in OT).
So, if we can keep it close in the first half (within 6 or less), we can win a close game.
RU 71
MD 70
In all of their losses they were beaten in the second half (or in the case of NW, in OT).
So, if we can keep it close in the first half (within 6 or less), we can win a close game.
RU 71
MD 70
If I’m Willard, I pound the ball inside to Queen and to Reese.
Somerville / Dortch and Martini will not be able to defend them.
Somerville / Dortch and Martini will not be able to defend them.
Agreed with this spread. This is a bad match up even for a healthy RU. MD's two 6'-10" bigs lead their offense and we have no depth at center. Expect them to pound the ball inside. MD 80 - RU 70
people just talk about their bigs, but their PG from Belmont is a stud and shoots 41% from three in-conference
My daughter goes to UMD so I've watched a fair amount of their games. The guy that worries me is Gillespie. If we try to pack the interior to contend with Queen and Reese, Gillespie will torch us. We're going to have to rotate a lot of guys and maintain defensive pressure.
This is my concern. Reese and Queen are a mismatch for sure, but their three guards/wings can light it up from outside. Gillespie, Rice, and Miguel have combined to hit 145 threes out of 365 attempts (spread about equally among them) for an average of 39.7%.
MD shoots 48.1% from the field overall, and 37% as a team from 3-pt range, and their five starters average between 15.0 and 11.3 ppg, so any one of them can kill us. So it's the "inside-out" aspect of their team that really scares me, because if we try and double the post, we open things up from beyond the arc and they can start raining threes.
MD also plays very good defense, giving up an average of 65.87 ppg overall, and 71.92 in Big Ten games.
Maryland 80
Rutgers 73
A challenge for sure Phil, but we did pretty well against UM with their two bigs and we could have (maybe should have) won that game even without Dylan. With Dylan at near full strength we have a decent chance to pull the upset, imo.
If ever there was a game to come up with some kind of help defense where you don’t leave perimeter guys too wide open it is this one. If you front the bigs you need help if they lob over the top and if you’re playing behind them you need guys crashing down to help in the paint.
If Ace & Dylan are cookin & we play the best defense we can I wouldn't bet against RU. If we make the Big Tourney & are playing like that I don't think anyone will want anything to do with us.
Rutgers has the two best players but Maryland has more scoring threats.Maryland runs a far better half court offense.Both teams are mediocre 3 point shooters and have difficulty putting teams away because of scoring droughts.I agree that Bailey and Harper need to score at least 50 points.Rutgers needs to limit scoring within 3' of the basket.I expect plenty fouls to be called.
This definitely is a must win for Rutgers but the team lacks a consistent third scoring threat .
Maryland 77 Rutgers 71
This definitely is a must win for Rutgers but the team lacks a consistent third scoring threat .
Maryland 77 Rutgers 71
We just played Michigan who had two excellent bigs and I think we handled them well and had a chance to win...and that was without Dylan.
A healthy Dylan makes that much of a difference. Somehow I think we win this. It's a big game if we all want to dream.
A healthy Dylan makes that much of a difference. Somehow I think we win this. It's a big game if we all want to dream.
Just need J-Will or Acuff to go ballistic and score, they seem to be the third wheel for Rutgers
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